Lone Vagrancy Case
Flops In Recorders
Court Last Monday
(Continued from page one)
cover damages alleged to have re
sulted from a fire said to have been
started when the two men started a
fire to burn out a hornets' nest.
The case charging Neal Godard
with false pretense, was nol pressed
After maintaining his innocence.'
Samuel Scott was adjudged guilty
in the case charging him with as
saulting another person with u dead
ly weapon. He was sentenced to the
roads for a term of six months. He
pending the sentence upon the pay
ment of the case costs and on condi
tion that he remain of good behavior
for two years.
Charged with assault with a dead
ly weapon and damaging personal
property. Nathan Crandell was ad
judged guilty over his own plea of
innocence and was sentenced to the
roads for a ter mof six months He
appealed to the higher court and was
requirecMc^josMjondir^h^iumof
Happenings In The
Bear Grass School
The first meeting of the Bear
Grass Parent-Teacher Association
was held in the school auditorium on
Tuesday night, Sept. ISth, at eight
o'clock. The new officers elected for
|this term: president. Mrs. Ruth Ha
i zel Harris; vice president, Mrs. Pete
Mcndenhall; secretary and treasur
er, Mrs Irving Terry. The Bear
$200.
Judgment was suspended upon the
payment of the cost in the case charg
ing W. E. and Paul Terry with op
erating motor vehicles without prop
er drivers' licenses.
Thadis Keech, charged with lar
ceny, was adjudged not guilty
Pleading guilty in the case charg
ing him with driving a motor vehicle
without an operator's license. Elbert
Leggett was sentenced to the roads
for a term of sixty days. The sen
tence was suspended upon payment
of the case costs and on condition
that the defendant refrain from driv
ing a car during the next two years
or until he procures a driver's li
cense.
BOYS'
SUITS
We have a lar?:e assortment of
Boys" and Students" Suits, in all
wool (Inverts. Slietlands. Tweeds
and Worsteds. Sizes from 11 up.
WE SUGGEST THAI YOU
BUY EARLY WHILE OUR
SELECTION IS COMPLETE
PITTMAN'S
Willianiston. North Carolina
Rain or Shine
Your Shopping
Here Is Always
Fair
Bring us your Wearing Apparel
Problems ? ami you'll he Dollars
Aheatl ? As We Do Not Substitute
Quality?as there is 110 such!
This Store Will Be Closed
Monday, September 21st
RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY
Saturday's Special
ONE GROUP OF DRESSES
Values to $12.95 ? Left Overs
From Spring and Last Fall
If your size is in the lot ?
$2.00
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WIIUAMSTON, N. C.
The 40th Week
Of The War
(Continued from page one)
for Npw Guinea, and American fly
ing fortresses bombed a Japanese
cruiser (off the Southeast Coast of
New Britain. Earlier, the fortresses
hit two enemy destroyers in the same
area. Japanese bombers continued to
attack U. S. Forces in the Solomons
and the enemy has "reinforced and
supplied" Japanese troops in the in
terior of Guadalcanal where U. S
Marines are engaged in mopping up
operations, the Navy reported. The
Navy said that 20 more Japanese
planes have been shot down in three
heavy bombing attacks?bringing to
at least 143 the number of Jap planes
officially reported shot down since
operations began August 7th.
?
Believe Major Drive
Shaping Up Against
Forces In Solomons
(Continued from page one)
defenders wiped out one dangerous
penetration less than 12 miles from
the center of the city, killing 2,200
German troops.
In two days of fighting, the latest
official announcement reported, a
single Red army unit destroyed 54
German tanks, 21 cannon, and 12
troop-laden trucks while annihilat
ing 1,500 enemy soldiers.
In another sector, the Russians
routed two battalions, destroying
leght tanks, two trench mortar bat
teries and 12 trucks.
Red Star, the Russian army or
gan, made it clear that the Volga
stronghold would be defended to the
last heap of rubble and the last man,
if necessary, asserting that "even a
completely destroyed city can and
must fight to the last."
An unconfirmed report from Mos
cow early this afternoon stated that
Stalin had ordered the Russian de
fenders to stage a counter-attack,
that reenforcements from the Siber
ian front were moving in to support
tin- defenders Already the invaders
were said to have been driven back
from the Volga river just to the
north of the city and the streets of
the town itself were being cleared
of the Nazis.
On the Voronezh front, north of
Stalingrad, the Russians have swung
back to the offensive and are chalk
ing up successes.
The defenders are hard-pressed on
the Black Sea coast, but in their |
stand before the Grozny oil fields,
the Russians have counter-attacked
with some success in the Mozdok
area.
A major drive by the Japanese in
an effort to regain the Solomons is
believed to be shaping up. An at
tempt the latter part of last month
apparently failed when the Ameri
can defenders wiped out 750 Japs
in a landing force. It has been re
ported that the Japs are rushing four
or five of their big battleships to
join its other forces in that area, in
dicating that a supreme bid will be
made to regain the islands. Things
are not going so well for the Allies
in New Guinea where the Japs have
advanced another eight miles to oc
cupy points hardly 30 air miles from
Port Moresby. The victory in tfie
Solomons would virtually be offset
with the loss of Port Moresby. Parts
of the main attacking and defending
forces there are said to have been in
action, but no details on the fighting
have been received
The Japs took a severe pounding
at Kiska in the Aleutians earlier this
week when American bombers
swooped down on the base and all
but destroyed it.
Another large American expedi
tionary force reached England yes
terday, and large numbers of para
chute troops were reported already
there.
Fire Cull Received Here
Early This Afternoon
Tlu' local fire department record
ed its first call in recent weeks early
this afternoon when an electric
wire, torn from its moorings by a
falling limb, almost fired the home
of Mr. and Mrs J. W Andrews on
Church Street. No damage was done,
and the firemen were advised their
services were not needed just as they
were leaving the station.
?
Army Engineers Complete
Survey And Return 'Home,
Completing a special assignment
in this area this week, a group of
Army engineers left at noon today
for their home base near New Bern.
During their stay here the young ar
my men maintained headquarters in
the Legion Hut on Watts Street.
Grass quartet entertained with spec
ial music.
The new home economics depart
ment is making rapid progress un
der the direction of Miss Hazel
Sanders. All the girls seem to be
very interested in the course and it
is certain to prove most practical
and beneficial for them.
The new gymnasium is still not
entirely completed, but near enough
so that the children can play in it.
It will be especially helpful on rainy
days for basketball practice and
playground activities.
Mr. Joseph Holliday from James
ville has accepted the seventh grade
work here temporarily. Mr. Holliday
belongs to the Marine Reserve and
it is not certain when he will be
railed, but until he is, he will have
charge of the seventh grade.
The attendance so far has been
very good in spite of the fact that
many of the children are needed at
home to work. We deeply appreciate
the cooperation of the parents in
kipping their children in school as
m ubb as powible.
Few Criminal Cases
Are Set For Trial
In Superior Court
(Continued from page one)
Johnnie Gray Mayo is charged
with the larceny of a car.
Preston Marshall, colored, is
charged with raping a 14-year-old
colored girl. In default of bond in
the sum of $1,000 Marshall continues
in the county jail.
Charlie Coffield, young colored
boy, is charged with the theft of
clothing and money from the Belk
Tyler store in Williamston.
Willie B. Jackson is charged with
larceny and receiving
James Mayo, charged with secret
and felonious assault which, it is
believed, hastened the death of Mr
J. S Ayers, Hamilton chief of po
lice, several months ago, is schedul
ed to face the courts.
Grady Mayo and Ernest Godard
are charged with breaking into and
stealing two automobile tires, worth
about $20, from Leroy Harris.
Thirty-Two County
Vihite Men Return
To Army Next Week
(Continued from page one)
ing and abetting forgery and forg
ery, Marvin Smith with reckless
driving. James Arthur Scott with
seduction and Bessie Smith and Sam
Mabry with arson were continued
from previous terms
Listed under the head of new
cases for the superior tribunal are
the following:
J. T. Briley, assault on female, ap
pealed from the county court.
Donald Knobles, attempted assault
and an assault with a deadly weapon,
appealed from the lower court.
The.names of the ten men reject
ed are, as follows:
Joseph Hubbard Daniels, Richarc^
Paul Edmondson, John David Ward,
William Jasper Ayers, Ben Ollie
Coburn, Gilbert Earl Coburn, James
Lloyd Price, Tommie Lawrence
Whitley, Asa Leroy Moore and Sam
uel Abram Ayers. It was the fourth
time Joe Daniels had been rejected.
Anxious to get into the service, the
young man had volunteered in the
air corps, the Marine Corps and the
Navy, but a bad ear blocked his en
trance.
Six men scheduled to answer the
last call volunteered for service, Den
nis O. Holliday in the Army, Joseph
Quincy Holliday in the Marine Corps
and Murray Gray Davis, Nathan
Thomas Edmondson, James Ether
idge Smithwick and Benjamin
Franklin Reason in the Navy. Larry
Clinton James, also scheduled to re
port for service with the group, was
transferred to Wilmington for in
duction.
A contingent of colored draftees
is scheduled to move out of the
county some time about the latter
part of the month. The size of the
call has not been publicly revealed,
but it is understood that three busses
have been ordered to transport the
group to the induction center.
Two Drivers Fined
For Passing School
Bus in the County
(Continued from page one)
orderly conduct, was sentenced to
the roads for 30 days, the court sus
pending the sentence upon payment
of the cost.
Walter Anderson, not satisfied
with one round in the court, got
drunk and was disorderly on two
occasions and the court fined him
$5 and taxed him with the costs in
each case, running the bill up to $25
for his week-end spree.
S. L. Rogers and Lonnie Rogers,
charged with being drunk and dis
orderly, were each fined $5 and tax
ed with the costs.
Charged with public drunkenness,
Albert Barber, Walter Turner, Rich
ard Razor and Joseph Finch were
sentenced to the roads for 30 days,
the court suspending the road terms
upon the payment of $7.50 costs each.
Few New Tires Are
Allotted in County
J
By Ration Board
(Continued from page one)
Six recapped truck tires were is
sued to Robersoh Slaughter House,
Williamston, for the wholesale de
livery of meats.
Recapped Auto Tires
Six recapped automobile tires
were allotted as follows:
Zora Desmond Cox, Oak City, one
tire for farm.
Charles R Moore, Williamston,
two tires qnd one tube, for duties as
township constable.
Sylvester Peel, RFD 1, Williams
ton, three tires and three tubes for
farm.
Obsolete Tires
Obsolete tires were issued as fol
lows:
H. H. Hopkins. RFD 1, Williams
ton, one trailer tire for farm.
Vester Coltrain, Williamston, two
car tires for farm.
Ralph O. Purvis, RFD 1, Bethel,
two trailer tires for farm.
Davis Purvis, RFD 1, Bethel, two
car tires for farm.
Cylabet Rogers, RFD 2. Williams
ton, one trailer tire for farm, r
CLARK'S MALARIAL, CHILL AND
Fever Tonic. Sold on money-back
guarantee. Clark's Pharmacy, Wll
liamston, N. C. jyM-t
China Missionary To
Speak In Everetts
Leaders of Disciples of Christ in
this area are holding a missionary
conference in the Everetts Christ
ian Church next Tuesday. The spec
ial meeting which will attract State
and international speakers, opens at
11 a. m. and will close that afternoon
at 2 o'clock, Secretary Charles C.
Ware announces.
One of the program features will
be an address by Dr. Walter W Has
kell, missionary to China who just
recently returned on the "Grips
holm." The American repatriate tells
a thrilling story of sufferings and
endurance of Chinese and American
Christians at Wuhu, China, where
Japanese have military control. The
conference is very fortunate in hav
ing Dr. Haskell on this program, and
the event is certain to be well at
tended.
Child Is Instantly
Killed In Unusual
Accident This Week
(Continued from page one)
ly accidental. While no formal in
quest is likely to be held, it is un
derstood that the coroner will record
findings exonerating Mr. Johnson of
all blame.
The victim of the unusual accident
was the son of Mr N. Lawrence Hy
man and the late Mrs. Pauline Dav
enport Hyman. Following the death
of his mother nearly four years ago
he had made his home with his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Davenport, where he was almost
idolized by them and other members
of the family. A bright little fellow
and well liked by his many little
playmates, he was just beginning his
second year in the Oak City schools.
He was an only child.
Funeral services are being con
ducted at the home this afternoon
and interment will follow in the
family plot in the Oak City ceme
tery.
Well-Known Martin
County Farmer Is
Victim Of Suicide
(Continued from page one)
Osborne, of this county ,and she wit
four children, Cecile, Elliott, Ca
olyn and Rabon Harris, all of tl
home, survives. He also leaves foi
brothers, Messrs Willis P. Harris, ?
Robersonville; Garland Harris, ?
Bear Grass, and Luther and Asa Ha
ris, of the U. S. Army, and one si
ter, Mrs. Willie Whitehurst, of No;
folk.
Funeral services were conducts
at the home Wednesday afternoc
at 5 o'clock by Rev. John L. Gof
Williamston minister, and Rev. V
O Andrews, pastor of the Robersoi
ville Baptist Church. Burial was i
the Robersonville cemetery.
Wants
FOB SALE: ONE 15-JO INTERNA
tional Tractor, with bush and bog
disc harrow. In first class condition
and ready to run. Luther Hardison,
Jamesville, N. C sl5-2t
FOR SALE: BICYCLE AND MOTOR
$35. Either motor or bicycle, $20. C.
L. Manning, 620 Washington Street.
Plymouth, N. C. s!5-2t
STOP, LOOK, LISTEN. IF INTER
ested in memorials for love ones
and friends, call 149-J, or write Jesse
T. Price, Williamston, N. C. Agent
for New Bern Monumental Works.
Dealers in high grade monuments
of marble and granite. Every mon
ument, small or large, has our per
sonal attention. s!5-2t
EXPERT PIANO TUNING AND RE
building. 16 years with Baldwin
Piano Company. Equipped to ren
der any service to any make of pi
ano. Chas. Goodrich, Box 405, Wash
ington, N. C. sl5-6t
THREE ROOM CORNER APART
ment for rent. Steam heat and hot
water furnished. Call or see N. C
Green or G. H. Harrison. s8-4t
THREE PERSIAN KITTENS FOR
sale. Mrs. Emily E. Smithwick,
Jamesville, N. C. s8-4t
GRAPES-WANTED: WILL PAT 3
cent* per hundred pounds for
Scuppernongs and Black grapes. This
equals $1.80 for 60 pound bushel.
Lindsley Ice Company, Williamston,
N. C. sl5-8t
FOR SALE: ONE BENTHALL PEA
nut Picker, practically new. Two
buggies and one surry newly paint
ed and in first class, condition.
Apartment for rent, West Main
Street, J. W. Green, Williamston.
sl8-3t
SHEEP FOR SALE ? RAMS OR
sheep. Will sell one or SO. )S.OO
each. R. G. Dixon, Grantsboro, Pam
lico County. sl8-2t
ONION SETS FOR SALE: LARGE
stock and prices very reasonable.
See us for your requirements. J. C.
Leggett, Washington Street, William
ston. Sl8-6t
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having this day qualified as ad
ministrator of the estale of the late
Levi James, deceased, of Martin
County, North Carolina, this is to
notify all persons holding claims
against said estate to present them
for payment on or before the 16th
day of September, 1943, or this no
tice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to
said state will please make immed
iate payment.
This the 16th day of Sept., 1942.
JESSE JAMES.
Administrator of the Levi
sl8-6t James Estate.
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